"I hear America singing, the varied carols..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.
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“I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!”
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
“There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.”
More on America
“The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.”
“It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.”
“I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.”
More on Unity
“Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.”
“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”
“All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.”